John Mitchell Quotes
If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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The American people do not want their taxpayer dollars funding any activity that runs counter to the security of our nation or our ally Israel.
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My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I've seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film 'Annie,' and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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I like power and I like to use it.
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Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it. Life is a dream - realize it. Life is a sacrifice - offer it. Life is love - enjoy it.
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I almost got a psychology degree, I almost got a philosophy degree. I kept changing it so they couldn't make me graduate. I studied anthropology and eastern religion, epistomology, and astronomy... I took every interesting course I could find for nine years.
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I went to private school my whole life. Growing up in Los Angeles, you're surrounded by not just Connecticut privilege but, like, your-dad's-a-movie-star privilege.
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I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.
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Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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We said from the very beginning that we're in this for the long haul.
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If anything, the power of the cover of 'Time' has increased as the media landscape has atomized.
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We've done enough - and made enough mistakes - to pretty well know how to guide our careers ourselves.
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We do need different types of propulsion to get to Mars. I wrote one of the first Ph.D. theses on that in the 1960s.
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From a Buddhist point of view, this is standing the truth on its head by considering goods as more important than people and consumption as more important than creative activity. It means shifting the emphasis from the worker to the product of work, that is, from the human to the sub-human, surrender to the forces of evil.
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You just want to be judged against everyone fairly.
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I actually have great hopes for the future.
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Working with the Latin language is pretty powerful. Working with a language that is not spoken vernacularly is intense.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Financial regulatory reform is one of the top legislative priorities of the Obama Administration.
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If you write to a title, the song sort of writes itself. I don’t find making music to be too problematic. It’s all the third party nonsense surrounding music that I don’t deal with so well.
